MXenes: Looking Ahead to the Next Ten Years

Professor Yury Gogotsi along other MXene experts will be talking in the upcoming virtual symposium “MXenes: Looking Ahead to the Next Ten Years,” which will be held on October 18, 2021, from 2 PM to 4 PM (CEST).

To register for the symposium, please visit the following link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5398090136617183760?source=Speaker+Share

Our Undergraduate STAR Students Participated in STAR Poster Session

Our undergraduate STAR students, Amanda Luca and David Zheng, presented posters, reporting on outstanding research results produced during their 8-week summer program in our lab in an open-air poster session. Congratulations to the students and their mentors Lingyi Bi and Mike Shekhirev!

Our recent article in ACS Nano: Titanium Carbide MXene Shows an Electrochemical Anomaly in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Congratulations to our member Danzhen Zhang and our alumni Xuehang Wang, Tyler Mathis, and Kanit Hantanasirisakul on the publication of the very important article “Titanium Carbide MXene Shows an Electrochemical Anomaly in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes.”

In the electrochemical energy storage community, the well-separated current peaks in cyclic voltammograms are considered key indicators of diffusion-controlled electrochemical processes with distinct Faradic charge transfer. In this work, we report an anomalous electrochemical process with separated CV peaks, accompanied by surface-controlled partial charge transfer and opening/closure of interlayer spacing between MXene nanosheets, which challenges the conventional wisdom and represents an electrochemical process that has not been previously identified and reported.

To view the full article, please visit the following link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c06027

Congratulations to Professor Yury Gogotsi for Winning the ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials

Professor Yury Gogotsi has received the American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry of Materials Award. His award recognizes his achievements in discovering new materials, a better understanding of electrochemical interfaces, and many other breakthroughs in science and engineering.

Congratulations to Professor Yury Gogotsi!

Our Perspective Article “Ten Years of Progress in the Synthesis and Development of MXenes” is Now Published in Advanced Materials

“Ten Years of Progress in the Synthesis and Development of MXenes” is a perspective article written by Michael Naguib and Professor Yury Gogotsi, and co-authored by Professor Barsoum. It commemorates 10 years of MXene research and will be accompanied by a virtual issue for which Professor Yury Gogotsi selected more than 50 papers from more than 500 published in Wiley journals since 2015.

To read the full article, please visit the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.202103393

Webinar: Raman Spectroscopy, SERS and TERS Exploration of MXenes

You are invited to register for our free webinar with 3 presentations on: Raman Spectroscopy, SERS and TERS: Exploration of MXenes, which will be held on Wednesday, September 22 from 2 PM to 4 PM EDT (11 AM to 1 PM PDT)

To register for the webinar, please visit the following link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9222775418852754704

“2D Materials in Tribology” Webinar with Professor Yury Gogotsi

Registration is open for Professor Yury Gogotsi’s “2D Materials in Tribology” webinar, which will be held on September 20th, 2021, at 10 AM EDT (4 PM CEST)

To register for the webinar, please visit the following link: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/2d-materials-in-trioboloy-prof-dr-yury-gogotsi-tickets-166765029693

NIH R01 Award to Develop Next-Generation Dry Electroencephalography (EEG)

“The Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and Yury’s work is just going to explode in ways we can’t predict. I feel really grateful and in awe of the opportunity to do this stuff, and I couldn’t be working with a better group of people.” – Prof. John Medaglia

Prof. Yury Gogotsi and his team will collaborate on a newly awarded NIH R01 award with Prof. John Medaglia from Drexel and Prof. Flavia Vitale from the University of Pennsylvania to develop MXene electrodes for dry electroencephalography (EEG). This will be the 3rd grant supporting research on biomedical applications of MXenes in our DNI lab.

To read the full article about NIH funded R01 project, please visit the following link: https://drexel.edu/coas/news-events/news/2021/August/nih-r01-award-to-develop-next-generation-dry-electroencephalography/